Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

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If the Directory Server fails to write to the errors log, the server sends the message to syslog and exits.
For information on these parameters, see Section 1.2, “Defining a Log File Deletion Policy”.
7. Click Save.
The logconv.pl Perl script reports the statistical information retrieved from the access log. For
more information on logconv.pl, refer to the Directory Server Configuration, Command, and
File Reference.
1.4. Error Log
The error log contains detailed messages of errors and events the directory experiences during
normal operations.
WARNING
If the Directory Server fails to write to the errors log, the server sends the
message to syslog and exits.
1.4.1. Viewing the Error Log
To view the error log, do the following:
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1. In the Directory Server Console, select the Status tab.
2. In the navigation tree, expand the Log folder, and select the Error Log icon.
A table displays a list of the last 25 entries in the error log.
• To refresh the current display, click Refresh. Select the Continuous checkbox for the
display to refresh automatically every ten seconds.
NOTE
Continuous log refresh does not work well with log files over 10 megabytes.
• To view an archived error log, select it from the Select Log pull-down menu.
• To specify a different number of messages, enter the number of lines to view in the Lines
to show text box, and click Refresh.
• To display messages containing a specified string, enter the string in the Show only lines
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